Phoenix Fight: The First Concubine

Chapter 132
Suddenly someone came quickly in the distance, caught a glimpse of them, and looked over in surprise.

Xiao Mingrui was in a turmoil, he was worried that his wife's condition would relapse, and it would be bad.

This side of the car had only walked a few steps, and was being stopped by someone.

It was none other than Concubine Hui and the servants who waited on her.

"What's the matter, Mingrui, oops!"

Concubine Hui stopped them, she was already surprised to see Xiao Mingrui getting up, but when she saw Murong Wei was unconscious, her expression changed: "What's wrong?"

Concubine Hui knew that Murong Wei had entered the palace yesterday, she wanted to send someone over, but who knew that the emperor came later and said something to her, Concubine Hui dismissed the idea.

There is a reason for coming here this morning.

Seeing Concubine Hui, Xiao Mingrui hurriedly said: "Concubine Mu, Wei'er has a fever. Erchen wants to take her to the imperial hospital!"

Concubine Hui stopped him and said, "Wait a minute, I'm here to talk to you. The emperor said that you don't have to kneel down in the Taimiao. There are only a few things you need to agree to. There's nothing you can say now. You put Wei Er Take it to Chonghua Palace."

Xiao Mingrui was stunned for a moment, and wanted to say something, but now was not the time to say it, the most important thing was to cure Murong Wei's illness first.

His heart was full of shock and pain, and he was already very remorseful seeing his wife's face like paper.

Hearing this, she could only go to Chonghua Palace with Concubine Hui, temporarily arranged to live in the apse, and invited the imperial physician over.

When the imperial doctor came to see her, she twitched her eyebrows in surprise, and said in a deep voice: "The princess has caught a cold and has a high fever. It's different, drink some medicine, rest in peace for a few days, don't let the wind go..."

Concubine Hui was also surprised when she heard that Murong Wei's illness had relapsed.

It stands to reason that one who has this disease must not stay in the palace, but now...

Xiao Mingrui was panicked and didn't speak.

He just felt sorry for his wife, who had gradually gotten better before, but repeated it for him.

"Mingrui, come with me, I have something to tell you."

"You are not a child anymore, don't you know your father's temperament?"

In the haze, Murong Wei heard a small voice.

who is talking?
She wanted to open her eyes, but at this moment, her eyes were extremely heavy and she had no strength at all.

Consciousness was a little fuzzy, and she heard a familiar voice say: "I understand, my father will explain clearly to my father."

"Hey, I don't want to persuade you, but now you have also seen... We don't know when Wei'er's body will recover...Your father..."

There was a faint sound of breathing in the middle.

"The emperor said that he would recruit Qi Wang's son to accompany him in the palace..."

Everything in front of him gradually sank into darkness.

When she woke up again, she had already returned to the Luo Palace.

"Ver, Ver?"

A low cry came, and Murong Wei gradually woke up from the darkness.

Opening her eyes slightly, her pupils hadn't aimed at the man in front of her for a long time.

It wasn't until the blur in front of her eyes gradually disappeared for a long time that she saw Xiao Mingrui's appearance clearly.

The eyes of the man in front of him were bloodshot, and some stubble had grown on his lips, which turned blue like a razor had just been shaved.

The originally bright eyes are now full of exhaustion and joy: "Wei Er, you are awake."

"Husband..." Murong Wei opened her mouth, wanting to call him, but the voice was surprisingly small, like a mosquito.

"Hey, I'm here." He stretched out his hand to hold her catkin, and the already slender arm was completely emaciated at the moment.

"Wangfei, Wangfei is awake!" Lu'er sneaked in, and Xiangtao stretched out her head beside her, wiping her tears: "You scared the slaves to death, Wangfei can't humiliate herself like this again."

Murong Wei was dizzy: "How long have I been asleep?"

"It's been two days." Lu'er couldn't help but said, "If you don't wake up, all the slaves will go with you."

Murong Wei was a little surprised for a moment, she has been in a coma for so long?

I have no impression of how he got out of the palace.

At this time, the imperial doctor had already come in, Xiao Mingrui said with some joy: "The fever has subsided a lot, this time it really scared me."

Doctor Liu was on the sidelines and said: "My lord, please ask me to feel the pulse of the concubine."

Only then did Xiao Mingrui get out of the way, and when Doctor Liu came out with a medical pillow and felt Murong Wei's pulse, he nodded and said, "My concubine's fever has subsided. Fortunately, the recurrence of the illness this time is not as serious as it was at the beginning, but it is much better. Yes. Now after the fever subsides, as long as you follow the original prescription, you will be cured in half a month. It’s just that the loss of vitality is relatively large this time, and you will have to live well and take care of it for a while after recovery.”

Xiao Mingrui looked at Liu Yizheng, nodded and said, "Come out, this king has something to ask you."

I don't know what he asked Liu Yizheng when he went out, anyway, when he came back, Murong Wei had already drank some water, and then fed him medicine.

"You're still in poor health. You haven't eaten for two days, so let the cook prepare some porridge."

Murong Wei coughed, and said with a wry smile: "This time, I will not live in peace again. Husband, you should be busy with your work for now, and you don't need to stay with me here."

Xiao Mingrui shook his head and said, "It's okay, it's not a big deal."

Murong Wei saw that his eyes were bloodshot, and knew that he must have not rested for a long time, so she said: "Go and rest, I'm fine now, but you haven't slept much, how can this work?"

Xiao Mingrui was also really tired, he hadn't closed his eyes much for the past two or three days, and he couldn't take it even if it was hard.

At this moment, he was doing good deeds, waited for the cook to deliver light porridge and rice, watched Murong Wei eat and then went to sleep, then he went to the next door to rest.

When Murong Wei regained some energy the next day, she asked Lu'er: "How did you get out of the palace?"

"It was Concubine Hui who came and said that the emperor was kind enough to ask the prince to take you back to the mansion. You didn't know that you had a fever and fell into a coma at that time, but you frightened the servants."

Thinking about the scene of that day, Lu'er still had lingering fears and was very frightened.

Murong Wei vaguely remembered what someone said while she was in a coma, but she couldn't remember at all at this moment.

The only way is that I forgot, or was stunned by illness.

"Could it be that the emperor was moved by our sincerity?" Murong Wei thought to herself, she has no strength in her body now, although the high fever has subsided, but the symptoms of runny nose and cold have not disappeared.

"It should be. The princess and the prince are so touching. Now it is rumored in Beijing that our prince is a first-class infatuated prince."

Xiangtao interjected happily.

Murong Wei laughed.

"That's right, I don't know how this matter has spread throughout the capital... Everyone says that the prince and the concubine are a good couple. The servants will see that there will be nothing difficult in the future. Who doesn't envy you now?"

Is it true or false?
She doesn't know whether she is envious or not, but if this news gets out, I really don't know if Emperor Jianwu will have any thoughts in his heart?
Murong Wei thought about it in her heart, but she couldn't figure it out right now, and the main thing was to recuperate at the moment.

Fortunately, he is relatively leisurely during his illness, and he doesn't have so many worries to take care of. He reads, talks, sleeps, eats, sleeps, and eats every day, just like raising pigs.

However, after five or six days, she felt much more refreshed, but this time, it was easy to repeat herself if she was careless. The doctor resolutely did not allow her to go out for a walk anymore, and locked her in the house to death.

It was getting late, Xiao Mingrui came out of the study, thinking of what Li Jishan said before, he was also depressed.

He remembered the contents of that book, of course he is not a person without descendants.

It's just that what is recorded in that book is a big event, and some things such as age are always recorded very vaguely.

If it happens a few years later, it will be very different from what it is now.

Li Jishan told him that his biggest shortcoming now is that he has no son.

The father, the emperor, would not pass the throne to a prince who has no sons.

But now among their brothers, there are many heirs of Prince Qi.

Others, like the king of Chu, gave birth to a daughter but died young.

Xiao Luzi waited beside Xiao Mingrui, the lights in the room had already been turned on, and in the evening, the hazy halo gave people a feeling of wanting to be intoxicated.

"Is the princess asleep?"

"Already asleep."

Xiao Mingrui hummed, "Bring the wine here."

Xiaoluzi agreed, and Zhang Luoren prepared the food and wine.

After a while, a few dishes and wine were brought.

Poor white fish, bracken, sauced beef, stir-fried cabbage, lily chicken slices, served with Shaoxing Huadiao, which is also very pleasant.

Xiao Mingrui poured himself a drink, while Xiao Luzi poured him wine, and he just drank by himself, without speaking for a while, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

Xiaoluzi was thinking wildly, since the princess was ill, especially when she came out of the palace this time...

He clearly remembered that after the prince went to Qianqing Palace, when he came back with a gloomy face, he just hugged the princess and went back to the princess without saying a word.

I don't know whether the emperor cursed or beat someone...

Yesterday, Prince Qin came to visit, and the two murmured for a long time. They didn't know whether they were discussing the marriage of His Royal Highness King Wei or the marriage of His Royal Highness Qin.

In the quiet night, only the moonlight is bright, and the sound of insects outside the window can be heard, and the weavers and grasshoppers are constantly calling, and sometimes the frogs are singing, and the irritable cicadas start to shout.

After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Mingrui seemed to be drunk.

Xiao Luzi supported the prince to lie down, and a few eunuchs came to serve him, and he went out to call the maid to come and get hot water.

For a while, Ai Chun brought in a copper basin from the side room, Xiao Luzi took a wet towel and wiped the prince's face.

Aichun went up to help, and said in a low voice, "Is the prince drunk?"

"Yeah, but I drank a lot of wine..."

Xiao Mingrui opened his eyes slightly, Xiao Luzi was about to take off his coat for him, when he saw him open his eyes in a hurry: "My lord, should you rest?"

"Well."

"Maidservant, bring you some honey water. In the past, princesses used this to sober you up." Ai Chun said on the side.

Xiao Mingrui glanced at her and nodded.

He said he was drunk, but in fact he couldn't say how drunk he was, it was just that he was not feeling well.

When he changed his clothes and lay down, and the weather in April and May was pleasant and pleasant, Xiao Mingrui closed his eyes slightly, until not long after, a pair of warm hands reached out, "My lord?"

Xiao Luzi whispered to the little eunuch Zhang De in the outside room: "I know what you said, I will talk to Master later, and see if I can let you go back to visit relatives."

Zhang De said gratefully: "Thank you, Mr. Lu, my old lady is seriously ill, I am really worried."

Xiao Luzi sighed: "Hey, they are all hard-working people, so I will help if I can."

Suddenly there was a sound of something breaking in the side compartment, Xiao Luzi was startled, and quickly stretched his head to look inside.

At this time, I don't know what happened, but there is no movement.

Xiaoluzi hurriedly got in, and when he went in, he saw the prince lying on the bed, and Lu'er was picking up the pieces with his head down.

"My lord, this is..."

Xiao Mingrui half-closed his eyes: "I accidentally hit it. You go get the bowl again."

"Hey, servant girl is going now."

Xiaolu didn't know the way, so when he went to the kitchen to prepare honey water and came back, it was the evening wind blowing on the road.

Xiaoluzi was humming the opera, walking happily, just waiting to go back, after a while, he came out with a strange expression, stood at the door, looked at the moon above his head, and said "pooh".

I don't know how long it took, Zhang De passed by, and said in surprise, "Why is the father-in-law still not resting?"

Xiao Luzi smiled and said: "It's nothing, don't you want to watch the night to serve the prince?"

Zhang De nodded: "It's really hard work, now Eunuch Su is also old, and he is busy managing the affairs of the palace."

"Yeah, Master is not young, so I have to work harder."

Xiao Luzi sighed to himself: "Oh, we are slaves, hehe, that's our fate. If you have a good master, everything will be fine. The princess is also a good master."

"Yes." Zhang Deshen agreed: "The princess is a kind person, Guanyin Bodhisattva must bless the princess to recover soon."

"Yes……"

Xiaoluzi sighed.

"The prince is out?"

Murong Wei took a chess record and looked at it, with a beech board on the side, she played chess with herself.

During the recuperating period, Mother Zheng will take care of all the affairs in the mansion for the time being, and if there is anything that needs her to resolve it decisively.

As of now, it doesn't matter anymore.

"Yeah, the lord seems to be going out to do something, and it will probably take a few days before he comes back." Xiangtao took a bunch of flowers and inserted them into the blue and white porcelain flower dendrobium, "I saw you were asleep when I came here in the morning, so I'll go Yes, I only brought a few people along to wait on me."

Murong Wei didn't think much about it, she just said that Xiao Mingrui had something to do, and said with a smile: "I don't care about him, I have a few days to relax, and I should take care of myself, and I won't live here anymore when the prince comes back. It's going to grow mold."

Zang Dong was silently cleaning on the side, and Dong Yu was busy with the account book to settle the accounts.

"Several aunts have come to greet you."

Murong Wei raised her eyebrows: "Just let them say hello at the door, there's no need to come in."

I don't know if they want to express their concern or what, but during this time, Jian Tiandi came to pay her respects.

Zhang Yuqian and the others went to the door to greet Murong Wei.

Just like the day before yesterday, Murong Wei didn't see them.

On the way back, Qi Yan beside Zhang Yuqian said in a low voice: "Seeing that the princess is almost healed."

Zhang Yuqian was wearing a string of sandalwood Buddhist beads, and she moved the beads while walking. At this moment, she said: "The Bodhisattva has manifested, I am worthy of praying for the princess every day."

Qi Yan snorted, feeling very contemptuous of Zhang Yuqian's hypocrisy.

It's just because Zhang Yuqian is an aunt, and she can also be regarded as a concubine. It stands to reason that in the palace, besides the concubine, side concubine, and concubine, there are also concubines, concubines, etc. Zhang Yuqian and the three are concubines. Die, the status is also higher than concubines like Qi Yan.

She didn't like to say anything face to face, but she just smiled and said to Wu Lan, the concubine at the side: "It's a lot easier for us in this way. From now on, we will be careful every morning and evening, but we need to be more diligent."

Su Mei glanced at her lightly, closed her eyes slightly and didn't know what she was thinking.

Recently, the palace seems to be calm on the surface, but in reality?
There was some sarcasm at the corner of her mouth, Zhang Yuqian sneered, and said in her heart: 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, this feng shui always takes turns.

The prince went out this time, but he didn't know what it would be like when he came back?

I'm afraid, maybe there will be a good show to watch at that time.

Zhang Yuqian held the prayer beads in her hand and began to recite more diligently.

As the saying goes, sickness comes like a mountain and goes away like silk.

This disease came quickly, but it didn't go too fast.

By the time Doctor Liu announced that she had recovered, Aunt Yue had already come to serve Murong Wei alive and kicking.

She recovered earlier than Murong Wei, and her health is also better. Since she was able to come out, she was patiently picked up by her son Shuisheng and taken to the house for a few days, so she came back here to serve Murong Wei in a hurry.

Seeing that Murong Wei had lost a lot of weight, Yuegu's eyes turned red and said: "This time, I really deserve to die as a servant, because I've hurt Miss."

Murong Wei smiled wryly and said, "This is not what you wanted, so why blame you?"

The people next to them tried to comfort them, and when everyone calmed down, Madam Zheng smiled and said: "The concubine is recovering from her illness, but it's not easy. I think it's better to go to offer incense to reward Guanyin." The kindness of the empress. Get rid of bad luck."

As early as when Murong Wei came out, the people in the palace had already changed all the furnishings in that room, and burned all the clothes, shoes and socks they were wearing, just to burn away bad luck.

Burning incense and taking a bath with orchid soup to relieve the evil wind from her body, Murong Wei also felt that her whole body was much refreshed. Although she lost some weight because of this, she felt sluggish when walking, but she could make up for it if she was healthy and healthy.

Murong Wei thought so too, she was so bored, she hadn't gone out for a long time, and now she just wanted to go out for a stroll and relax.

Staying at home can be boring.

"Isn't that right? The concubine has to take care of her again. If she goes out and sees the wind again, what will happen?" Yue Gu said worriedly.

Murong Wei smiled and said: "It's okay, look at the weather, how can it be cold? Going for a walk is better than staying indoors."

Life lies in exercise, and she doesn't think staying in the house all the time can cure her illness.

On the contrary, it will always be much better to get more sun.

Yuegu was still very worried, so she went to ask the doctor, Liu Yizheng meant that Murong Wei should not go out in two days.

Murong Wei thought, why not wait for Xiao Mingrui to come back and go to the temple to offer incense together.

After nearly a month of idle time, everything in the mansion was busy, and Murong Wei was arranging things and reconciling accounts, so she didn't have much free time.

In the evening Xiao Mingrui came back.

Murong Wei hadn't seen him for some time, now when she saw him, she happily went up to greet him.

"Husband is back, I thought you were going to run away from home."

Seeing her well, Xiao Mingrui also had a smile on his mouth, "Thinking of you, why don't you want to come back? Do you feel unwell?"

As he spoke, he reached out and touched her forehead, "Don't catch the cold again."

"It's okay, I'm in good health." She happily pulled Xiao Mingrui to prepare dinner: "I was about to let them prepare dinner, and my husband will come back, just in time, let's eat together."

Xiao Luzi took off the black cloak on Xiao Mingrui's body and hung it up. He looked at the smiling face of the princess, and then at Xiao Mingrui who also had a gentle face. A wooden stake was erected.

The maids served the dishes one after another. They were all home-cooked dishes, light and refreshing. Murong Wei had just recovered, so she couldn't eat those meaty and greasy food. She hadn't eaten tasty food for a long time, she was so hungry.

This time I caught a lot of delicious food, so there is no reason not to eat to my heart's content.

I didn't feel full until I ate two bowls of Shaoxing Huabai rice and a lot of vegetables.

Xiao Mingrui looked at her with a funny face: "But it starved my wife to death."

The maids next to her bowed their heads and laughed.

Murong Wei blushed, "Isn't it that it's been a month, and the soup is clear and watery, which has made my stomach wronged, so I can't appease it?"

Xiao Mingrui laughed loudly: "All right, but you must remember not to overeat. You have a weak stomach now, so you can't indulge yourself like this."

Murong Wei curled her lips, thinking that she is a doctor, why don't she know how to take care of herself?
"Okay, I get it all."

Murong Wei didn't talk back to him, and wanted to go for a walk after dinner, but he strictly prohibited her.

No, he can only read and write letters and notebooks, while she practices calligraphy and occasionally embroiders, and doesn't talk much, but she is at ease.

When it was time to rest, Xiao Mingrui was still busy, and Murong Wei was a little sleepy after a busy day, so she fell asleep early.

When she woke up the next morning, before she could open her eyes, she felt someone was staring at her.

She slightly opened her eyes, and saw Xiao Mingrui staring at her with piercing eyes. There were complicated thoughts in those dark eyes, and she didn't know how many invisible things were hidden.

"what's wrong?"

"Just thinking, it's nice."

He said softly, then hugged her suddenly, and said in a muffled voice: "Wei'er, promise me that you will never leave me, okay?"

Murong Wei was startled for a moment, but then understood.

Presumably, he was frightened by her illness, right?

Murong Wei felt tenderness in her heart, and reached out to caress his cheek, "Well, I won't leave you. During this time, you are the hardest one. I'm really sorry, I will pay attention to it in the future."

"I am..." He paused for a while before saying, "It's what it should be. You are my wife, shouldn't it be the right thing to do to take care of you? As long as you remember, take good care of yourself, that's the biggest thing. thing."

Murong Wei nestled into his arms and nodded obediently: "Well, I'll listen to you."

Xiao Mingrui looked at her, hesitant to speak.

"Has the master woke up?"

Su De's voice came from outside, with some urgency.

Murong Wei was stunned for a moment, Xiao Mingrui shouted out: "What's the matter?"

"The old slave has something to report."

Xiao Mingrui turned back and smiled at Murong Wei: "Then I'll go out and have a look first, this Su De, I don't know what trouble he is doing."

After finishing speaking, he got up and went outside to whisper something to Su De in only his coat.

When he came back, he said with a sullen face, "I'll go to Prince Jing's mansion first."

"Well, my aunt is critically ill now, I'll go visit her first."

"Then shall I go with you?" Murong Wei said and called the servant girl to come in and serve her.

"No need, you are also a sick number now, how can you go to that kind of place, what if you get sick again?"

Xiao Mingrui categorically rejected this proposal and asked her to live well at home.

Murong Wei had no choice but to let him go.

Considering that Princess Jing has been ill for a long time, is it really going to die now?

Murong Wei was thinking wildly, wondering what is going on with Xiao Jinglan now?

As usual, Murong Wei asked someone to send a visit gift.

At noon, Xiao Mingrui did not come back.

Just about to have lunch, Xiangtao happily came over with a few gift boxes, and smiled as she walked: "Princess, Manager Han sent you some supplements."

Murong Wei laughed and said, "It's a gift from Han Wen, and you're so happy when it's worth it?"

Lu'er's eyes lit up, "Yeah, I remembered, every time Manager Han comes to the palace, you are very happy."

Xiangtao blushed immediately, and became angry from embarrassment: "You're teasing me again, no way, I'm just happy with this gift. Who said I like him?"

Lu'er laughed loudly: "Isn't there anything in the palace? What kind of rare thing? Look, we didn't say you like Guanshi Han, haha, this time you've revealed your truth!"

(End of this chapter)